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The Book of Sand

Written by: Theo Clare
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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io9/Gizmodo Prize

The first in an epic series created by one of our finest and most inventive storytellers, also known as the international bestseller Mo Hayder

Sand. A hostile world of burning sun.

Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins.

In the distance a group of people—a family—walks toward us.

Ahead lies shelter: a “shuck” the family calls home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.

To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs.

It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia, when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life—except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she’s beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is....

Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.

©2022 The Literary Estate of Theo Clare (P)2021 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Horror Scary Paranormal City

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Couldn’t finish this one. I have always been a HUGE fan of Mo Hayder and I enjoy fantasy fiction too, but I didn’t get hooked by this departure from her crime/thriller genre. I found the American teenage storyline boring and not as intriguing as it’s intended to be. The family in the desert storyline was too vague to pull me in. At the half way point I’d had enough. I really couldn’t care less about what happened to any of them. I guess this was the last book that Mo Hayder wrote and she will be greatly missed, but it wasn’t a hit with me.

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